Sunday Psalms:

Will evildoers 

never understand? 

They consume 

my people 

as they consume bread;

they do not 

call on the Lord. 

Then they will be 

filled with dread, 

for God is 

with 

those 

who are righteous.

 

You sinners 

frustrate the plans 

of the oppressed, 

but the Lord 

is his refuge.

Psalms 14:4-6 CSB

These Psalms, these songs are full of voices of hurt, sorrow, of crying out to, and crying out about God. 

But in Psalm 14 the tone has shifted and there is God's justice and his refuge for the oppressed, for the victim, for the one who has been hurt. 

Psalm 14 calls out the "evildoer". How are they described?

As someone who consumes another. 

This includes the big, those who would take over countries and people groups. 

It also includes the boss who uses people, the violent spouse, the selfish person, the abuser...

The warning is clear. God is with those who have been or are being consumed by others. 

He is their refuge. 

He is for those who have been hurt by others. 

He is for you.

As followers of Jesus we are to be that refuge for the oppressed, the hurt, those who have been consumed like bread by others. Maybe that's what worship looks like too. 

Martin Luther King put it this way:

"...justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love".

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#thisisourGod

#onedayallhurtwillbeunhurt